Question

If you pass string like this to your python as program argument

my.py name1=abc name2='def' name3="ghi klm"

then sys.args will return list like this

['name1=abc', 'name2=def', 'name3=ghi klm']

thus all quotes are considered and removed. Which function in python can take string of arguments and return such normalized list?

Update

Input string -> 'name1=abc name2=\'def\' name3="ghi klm"'
Output list -> ['name1=abc', 'name2=def', 'name3=ghi klm']

Answer 1

To split arguments in the same way as the shell, you can use shlex.split():

>>> shlex.split("name1=abc name2='def' name3=\"ghi klm\"")
['name1=abc', 'name2=def', 'name3=ghi klm']